Logitech Webcam button usage

[dlarue]

Have the original Master branch working with a USB Logitech webcam which has one button on it. I added a thread to the process to handle the blocking of the event. Here's the code snippet if anyone cares to also implement it as opposed to a GPIO button.

The following are most of the code snippets(if you know a little about coding and python you should be able to figure it out. But ping me if you can't):

USB webcam mic

import threading from pygame import camera from evdev import InputDevice, categorize, ecodes from select import select

#

USB webcam mic

Setup

camera.init() cam = camera.Camera("/dev/video0",(640,480)) cam.start()

assign your own eventX identifier. I have no other USB devices connected so it's always 0

dev = InputDevice('/dev/input/event0') #logitech Camera

threading class for button pushes

class ButtonValue(object): def init(self, start=0): self.lock = threading.Lock() self.value = start def down(self): self.lock.acquire() try: self.value = 1 finally: self.lock.release() def up(self): self.lock.acquire() try: self.value = 0 finally: self.lock.release()

def start(butVal):

last = GPIO.input(button)

last = 0 if butVal.value else 1   # reverse from GPIO

.....

def worker(c): """worker function""" print 'WebCam Button Worker Started' while True: r,w,x = select([dev], [], []) event = dev.read() for event in dev.read(): if event.type == ecodes.EV_KEY: v=event.value if( v == 1 ): c.down() else: c.up()

if name == "main": butVal = ButtonValue() t = threading.Thread(target=worker, args=(butVal,)) t.daemon=True # cause thread to terminate with main t.start() ..... start(butVal) t.join() sys.exit()

[renekliment]

This sounds great. Would you care to implement is as a new _deviceplaftorm over at the new upstream (https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi)?

[renekliment]

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